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If you can keep your head when
all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming
it on you;
If you can trust yourself when
all men doubt you,
But make allowances for their
doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired
by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal
in lies,
Or being hated don't give way
to hating,
And yet don't look too good,
nor talk too wise;
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If you can dream - and not make
dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make
thought your aim,
If you can meet with triumph
and Disaster,
And treat those two importers
just the same;
If you can bear to hear the
truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a
atrap fro fools,
Or watch the things you gave
your life to, broken,
And stopp and build 'em up with
worn-out tools;
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If you can make one heap of all
your winnings
And risk it on one turn of the
pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start afain at
your beginnings
And never breathe a word about
your loss;
If you can force your heart
and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after
they have gone,
And so hold on when there is
nothing in you
Except the Will which says to
them: 'Hold on!'
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If you can talk with crowds and
keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose
the common touch,
If neither foes nro loving friends
can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but
none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving
minute
With sixty seconds' worth of
distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything
that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll
be a Man, my son!
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